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Let's make every shelter and every community no-kill by 2025

Is Your Community No-Kill?

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Book review: ‘Luigi: Mischief & Love with an Italian Cat’

The 10 lives of a loveable cat
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Faces of No-Kill: Kittens heal from contagious condition

All you need is a bathtub and an open mind: how Best Friends cat expert Samantha Bell nursed kittens with sarcoptic mange back to health.
Learn how to step up
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Kitten who’s paralyzed purrs through life

Nothing stops Frittata from playing, pouncing, and having fun.
See his improvement
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Community Voices: Jordan Powell

Meet Jordan Powell! Jordan has been in animal welfare for 10+ years. He has worked in shelter medicine, wildlife, exotics, general practice, ER/ICU prior to now being a Neurology Veterinary Technician in Philadelphia.
See what he'd like for the future
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A pool party just for pigs

Pigs at the Sanctuary make a splash and have a blast at a summertime soiree just for them.
Check out the fun
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Easier adoption process saves more dogs and cats

A chance meeting with a Best Friends staff member caused an Iowa organization to change the way it viewed adoptions and save more animals.
Read how they embrace change
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We can make make every shelter and community no-kill by 2025

In 2022, about 378,000 dogs and cats were killed in our nation’s shelters.
Help Save Them All
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Saving lives

We ensure second chances to pets at our sanctuary and lifesaving centers, even as we expand programs nationwide that keep animals out of shelters in the first place.
Saving lives
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Standing with shelters

We work to save more lives faster by providing shelters and rescue groups with ways to collaborate and connect so they can increase the number of animals they can rehome in their communities.
Standing with shelters
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Teaming Up

We're right there with you as you make a better future for homeless cats and dogs, giving you the support you need to care for your pets and the pets and people in your community.
Teaming up with you

Who We Are

We started over 35 years ago with a no-kill sanctuary in Utah. Today, we’re helping homeless pets in every corner of the country.

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Working Together

All across America, pets in shelters are connected with loving new families, increasing the national save rate from 70.7% in 2016 to 81.4% in 2022.

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Our Impact

Since 2016, shelters that have engaged with Best Friends have had a two times greater lifesaving improvement than unengaged shelters.

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Remember a beloved pet with a memorial

Create a Memorial

Act for Animals

We’re saving more animals now than at any point in our history, but our work isn’t done until every dog and cat gets the chance to know care and companionship … in a safe and loving home.

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Is your community no-kill?

See how you can help your local shelters save more animals with comprehensive, up-to-date shelter and rescue group data for your community.

How's your community?
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Join the 2025 Action Team

Help create big change for the pets and people in your community. Connect with a local team of advocates today.

Get started
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Volunteer

Whether at the Sanctuary, or a shelter in your community, make a real difference in the lives of homeless pets.

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Get shopping

Help save animals by purchasing items from the comfort of your home.

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Find a pet

Ready to bring home a new best friend?  Adopt, foster or sponsor, and help a homeless pet find their forever home.

Adopt, Foster or Sponsor
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Help animals all year round by making a monthly gift today.
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Adopt a rabbit
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Adopt Phantom
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Get to know Snickers
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Adopt Dice
Choose a Sanctuary animal to sponsor. Your gift helps find a loving home, spay/neuter, and much more.
Sponsor an Animal
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